Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-23
FOREIGN INDUSTRY.

AUSTRIA has over two hundred beet-root
sugar factories, which work up annually
ten thousand tons of beet.
MEXICO manufactures nearly all the wax
matches used in this country They are
made without the aid of good machinery,
yet the industry is in thriving condition.
Two YOUNG electricians of Munich, named
Mestern and Hehdobler, have invented a
sort OF telephone which fixes the spoken
word on a chemicaily-prepared sheet Of
paper.
THE rose gardens of Bulgaria yield to that
country much wealth. as well as the repu-
tation of being the flower-bed Of Europe
Careful study has enabled the natives to
create wonders in their blooming fields.
A STEAM omnibus is in use in Dresden.
The motive power is applied to the hind
wheels, and is supplied by an upright boiler
and compound engine. 1t is used in the
streets for carrying passengers, and will
seat twenty persons.
THE production of locomotives in Europe
during the year 1886 amounted in England
to 200; Germany, 1900; France, 1000; Bel
gum, 800; Austria, 400; Switzerland, 100;
Italy 20; Sweden, so; Russia, 40, and Hol-
land, 20; in all, 800 engines.
LOCOMOTIVE for drawing coal trucks in
mines has been constructed for the mines at
Lebendorf, Germany. The height of the
engine Is only four feet and a half and the
width only little over three feet, and it
will draw twelve trucks weighing fifteen
hundred pounds each at a speed of seven
miles an hour.
THE screw industry of Berlin is of such
magnitude as to attract the attention of
ather countries, and the foreign sales are
on the increase. The materials used in the
manufacture are iron, steel, brass and Ger
man silver principally. There are twenty
eight factories turning out annually i'm
mense quantities and employing over fifteen
hundred hands.
To AVOID the difficulties and inconveni-
euce attending the use of steam engines,
a strong company has been formed in Paris,
Industries states, for the supply of com
pressed air to users of dynamo machines
for electric lighting A central station has
been provided, where engines of three
| thousand aggregate horse power will
compress the air for this purpose. The
mains are already being laid, and the work
is being pushed on with all possible speed
TO furnish motive power to the theatres,
within the time allowed by the Govern
ment order, for the substitution Of electric
| light for gas. With electric lamps and
compressed-air engines, the maximum of
safety from fire will have been attained.
WARSAW, the ancient capital of Poland, is
| one of the chief European centers of the
| tanning industries, it's $50 leather-produc-
! ing establishments turning out annually
| about 100000 worth of leather, which is
| principally exported to Russia, although
about one-third Of the product is consumed
at home by the Warsaw shoemakers, whose
manufacture is shipped to other portions of
the empire. One leather manufacturer
consumed last year, in his tanneries, 10000
ox-hides, 10000 COW hides and 100000 calf
skins. Another large house manufactured
$4,000 worth of leather last year. while
third uses about 10000 ox-hides, the same
number of Ow-hides, and 10000 calf-hides.
These large tanneries import raw-hides
from America, Australia, Asia and Africa